Friday, September 5, 2008

Besides speculation and rumor, does anyone know any hard facts about Ultimate Anonymity....i.e. who runs it, are they true privacy advocates, etc.? They claim to have over 10,000 members. I'm not so sure. I have a U.A. account, so I am familiar with the two primary "From" headers that are used when you post via Ultimate Anonymity....CybaAnonym...@nym.alias.net and Mailda...@nym.alias.net. Just out of curiosity I did a DejaNews search for a posting history of these two "From" headers, just to get some idea of how many other people might be using U.A., and what variety of newsgroups they post to. It seems the vast majority of posts thru U.A. are very poorly disguised promotions for U.A....posts with texts like "Wow, it sure is kewl posting anonymously like this! Go to www.ultimate- anonymity.com" Also disturbing is that most of these "plugs" for U.A., from U.A., seem to be aimed at various perverted alt.sex newsgroups...prettyboy, teens, necrophilia, bestiality, etc. Sick... Anyone have the true skinny on these guys?????

Here's something interesting from this thread ( Note, it says: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This message will be removed from Groups in 4 days (Sep 10, 6:14 am).After paying the big $$ &c.my PC started running r e a l l y s l o w. Spyware doctor says I've picked up a rootkit. Is UA a front org for the DHS?

This message is followed by UA shilling as "Winston Doolittle" signed "Jiff" defending UA....

UltimateAnonymity, has all the numbers to be a sting, it is impossibleto run a privacy service under those prices, the money must come infrom other sources I suspect, come on...life membership at $58?

Yeah sure.And who pays the server bandwith, the domain name, thestaff,the taxes, and so much more involved.

When I first found UA a few years back I though they would take themoney then shut down the company and that is your life membership gone,but seeing they are still in business, I can just think of an NSAoperation, with spamming rights included so they even look half criminal.

The NSA wants as many people as possible using their sting operation andthe best way of doing that is making it as cheap as possible.

I dont have any proof, but common sense tells me it is impossible to run the service on $58 for life, not even $100.